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Friday, March 26, 2010
10:24 AM
Food for thought.Sometimes, when I see secondary school students canoodling in the bus or making so much noise while walking down the neighbourhood, I get disgusted and pissed off. And then, this surge of familiarity and guilt come rushing down on me. Those students might have been ME when I was their age back then. Those activities could have been done by ME back then too. Those students that could have been ME could have annoyed the public so much. I MIGHT HAVE BEEN A PUBLIC NUISANCE BACK THEN. AN EYESORE. A DISGRACE. UNCIVILISED?How ironic this realisation is, don't you think? You don't like people to be doing this only when you're older and mature, and back then you thought it was supposed to be okay?! How small-minded and naive we all were! We were still so young. True, we all grow up learning the good and the bad. But does it always have to be that way, grow up and then you learn? Is it possible that we infuse some form of respect and intelligence while we're still a teenager? Is it too much to ask for from a narrow-minded soul who only cares about freedom, acceptance and wanting to grow up fast?The pot calling the kettle black. How I wish I hadn't done those things I did back in secondary school, even though it was nothing extreme. Now, I despise those kids who did the exact same thing I did then. And slowly, it began to sink in, 'OMG! Could I have behaved in the exact same manner back then?!' It's like someone just slapped you in the face. Only trouble is, it's not a someone, but reality. It's good if we can consider the feelings of the people in our lives like our family and our community. If doing something feels good back then, it might not appear as so to the people who's watching you.Too late to regret. But not too late to remind the young ones.
